Three security personnel are killed in a car bombing near Kabul. The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack.
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April 4, 2021 (Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
President Ashraf Ghani is expected to offer a three-phase peace roadmap, which includes a ceasefire and agreement, during a proposed meeting in Turkey.
Disasters and accidents
Eleven people are killed and 19 others are injured after a truck and a passenger bus collide on the G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway in Jiangsu province, China.
At least 80 people are killed in Flores island, Indonesia, and 21 more in Dili, East Timor, by flash floods and landslides.
An explosion and fire aboard a boat injures at least eight people, some of them critically, on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia.
Health and environment
The Maharashtra state government announces that there will be a nightly curfew as well as a weekend lockdown in order to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases. These measures will be implemented from tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. until April 30.
Taiwan receives its first shipment of 199,200 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine distributed through the COVAX initiative.
Greece reports 78 deaths in the past 24 hours, which is the highest daily total this year, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,380.
Bangladesh reports a record 7,087 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 637,364.
California reports the United States' first case of the "double mutant" variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in India. The variant has been detected in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Law and crime
The United States Armed Forces announces that Camp 7 at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp will close.
Politics and elections
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